The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-07-26
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

In Ohio a woman can sell, mort
gage or lease the house or land she
holds in her own name without con-
sulting her husbsnd.-St. Louis Repnb-
licou.
j. H. Stringfellow. of Crockett,
Tex, has had a tombstone made for
his leg, bearing the date of amputa-
ton and the inscription: Here lies
the leg"
"A Toledo woman, discovering that
her neighbors house extended two and
half feet on her grounds, hired car
penter to saw off that much, and built
fence on the line.
-Petrified Holsters, CLAIMS, turtles
and the like ara found in great abund-
ance in the Santa Catalina mountains
in Arizona, at a height of nearly ten
thousand feet above the level of the
sea-
Commodore Vanderbilt laid the
basis of his fortune when he quit steam
boating and went to railrOading. John
ii. Starin's great wealth began to come
when he quit railroading and began to
manage steamboat lines.
The employment of women as
printers is increasing in England. A
women's printing society has been
formed with leading names on the list
of directors. while the excellence of
the work done by women printers is
testified to by so eminent authority as
Ruskin.
w. P. Miller. of Westside, Pa. has
a hen to brsg of. One day recently
she laid an egg that was six inches and
half long and eight inches and half
around; and the next day she laid an
other that was six inches long and
seven inches and three-quarters in cir
conference.
Live bears are not infrequently
part of an express messengers load in
California. They are quite - easily
managed as dogs; the novelty of the
situation, in connection with the rumble
and jar of the train, no doubt drives all
thought of mischief out of their heads.
A short time ago young bear got loose
in the Los Angeles Office during the
night and had quite picnic all by him
Cleveland Leader.
There was picked up in the river
at Bath, Me-, recently, the water
soaked and battered figure-head of a
vessel, which must have been a century
old at least. The figure is of maple.
about five feet in height, and repre-
sents the head and shoulders of a man.
When found it was frozen to the bot
tom of cake of ice. as if the breaking
up of the river might have torn it from
some ancient and forgotten wreck.
Essex, Mass, has a citizen whose
greatest claim to distinction is his ap-
petite, and that is remarkable. He will
rise at two o'clock in the morning and
eat slice of meat, some eggs, several
pieces of bread, cut of ham and per-
haps few potatoes. At seven o'clock
he eats hearty breakfast At nine he
has another. About ten he begins to
grow hungry again. He is always
craving food, and yet the doctors say
that the man is well-N Y Sun.
If the relative mortality of all
males aged from twenty-five to sixty
five years be taken as one thousand,
the exceptional mortally of special
classes has been calculated as follows,
viz:
Inn and hotel servants. .2s6
General London lsborers. 1000
CornWsu MINERS - Low
Agricultural laborerS.. .10i
1afucucrs--. oSs
-COngregatioraaliSt.
Soldiers are ''soft" or "hard" &C
cording to the temperature at which
they melt Hard soldiers fuse at red
heat. Soft soldiers are those which can
be applied with soldering iron," or
with mouth blow-pipe; these soldiers